Some years ago, Marvel Comics gave us Bizarro World. In Bizarro World, everything was the opposite of what it should be: Marilyn Monroe was hideously ugly, Aquaman couldn’t swim, and monkeys threw peanuts at humans. Bizarro World politics involved politicians promising increases in taxes and government corruption.
If Bizarro World was created today, we’d have politicians putting populations into lockdown because of a virus that was having no impact on mortality rates, and opposition parties that agreed with everything the government did.
Political commentators in Bizarro World would be oblivious to the simple fact that the virus is having no impact on...
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